How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

Written by Ralph Paine Benedict

Narrated by LibriVox Community

In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have developed through evolutionary processes, each with its own distinct character traits and corresponding outward appearance. She offers to teach the reader how to recognise these five types of people and understand their innate differences. Her ideas have never been taken seriously by the scientific community, but this book is considered a classic within its genre and remains in print today. (Summary by Carl Manchester)

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Reviews for How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis

[shelly · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Some of the readers were very hard to listen to. I couldn’t listen to the chapters that the Asian woman read because I could only understand about every 4th word. It was interesting to contemplate the differences of what was considered desirable in the 20s compared to now (Being “fat”).

[judy griffin · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I agree with the other reviewers. Cannot tolerate the reader.

[Olive Pineapple Barnes · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I had to stop listening because I couldn’t understand the lady. That’s ridiculous

[Seth Wilkins · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

One terrible narrator is too many. Just buy the book.